Happy February 29th and if this is your Birthday and you were born in 1972, happy 11th birthday.  :-) Interesting facts about Leap year from: Leap Year Explained What are your chances of being born on leap day? About 1 in 1500 How many people were...

Now both the x86 and x64 fully integrated version of the OS bits are FINNALY available!.  They are up on the TechNet Subscriber download center!!!   My buddy Keith announced the x86 bits a couple of days ago, and he even briefly talked...

Congratulations to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Team!  They just launched the  third-generation of the agent-less infrastructure assessment platform called Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.0 (or simply MAP). ...

Check out the CBS site: Trekkies Will Love This!  

Happy Friday! Last night I arrived in Los Angeles for a presentation on Enterprise search.  Well I check into the hotel (The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles) hop on the elevator, and I notice a sign.  The sign mentioned that...

If you have never scene this talk, I highly recommend it, it is about 10 minutes long and worth every second.  I guarantee it will touch you.  It is an shorter version of a full lecture that he gave, and you can click on his name to learn more...

On the heals of the announcement of the  RTM of System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM), I am happy to announce part 3 of my 3 part radio interviews with the folks from the mobility group has gone live!!! I had a great opportunity to speak with...

Good afternoon all my Mobile device managers!  I just heard that System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 has gone RTM!  You can read about it here: Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 This is a great release, also in...

Okay, I have to admit I tuned into the the NBA all-star game, I loved watching the Saturday contests, with the team shooting, three-point and of course the dunk contest.  Well this morning I heard an interesting conversation on Mike and Mike in the...

Get your rock on with Aerosmith! I did, and already got 5 stars on easy. :-) "Dream On" was the first major hit for the rock band Aerosmith, appearing on their debut self-titled album in 1973. Now all of you Guitar Hero™ III: Legends of Rock players will...

Okay folks I have arrived, I have learned how publish with Silverlight, so the post I did today on MOSS: Screencast: How To Install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 I can now offer streaming with Silverlight!!!!  Click on play...

The other day I was building some new demo servers to showcase search capabilities with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS).  During the process I decided to install MOSS on my brand new RTM copy of Windows 2008 Enterprise server. ...

Again thank you to everyone who gave me feedback on SP1, you can read that here: Windows Vista SP1 is coming soon to a download center near you As some of you may already know about 1/2 hour ago SP1 was released for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. ...

I had a great opportunity to speak with 3 fantastic Windows Mobile experts from the product group.  I sat down with and had some great TechNet Radio interviews with Derek Snyder, Brian Hoskins and Dan Arildson.  Over of the 3 parts we spoke...

First off thank you to everyone you commented, emailed, and otherwise gave direct feedback to Mike Nash when he announced the Windows Vista SP1 had RTM'ed . It became very clear form all the feedback from folks like yourself that you wanted the bits,...

You get to be the judge, click on the picture below and got the search-off web site , click the picture below, run a search and click the check in the upper right to vote.  Happy Searching!

One of the great things about working with search is seeing all of the great facets of the product.  One of the more intriguing aspects I have seen is the faceted searching inside of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).  So what is faceted...

Okay I have to admit, I normally do not watch the pro bowl but now it is another reason to have a party.  Not 1 or 2 Cleveland Browns are going but 6 . That is right 6 Cleveland Browns are going!  There was an announcement on Monday telling...

begin Julie Andrews visualization Windows Mobile 6, Active Sync, Mobile CRM, Mobile OOF, Mobile Device Center, System Center Mobile Device Center..... These are just a few of my favorite things. end Julie Andrews visualization :-) I had a great opportunity...

Good afternoon all my fellow Ohio State fans!!!! This book of the month I decided to lift my spirits as well as all of my fellow buckeye fans! Even if your not a buckeye fan, this is a good football book. The book is all about the last 115 years of...

I saw an interesting article on the amount of viewers for the Super Bowl on Sunday. It was the most watched Super Bowl in NFL History. With The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants ' last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it second...

Yesterday I was reading a couple of interesting posts and the general news surrounding the proposed acquisition we made to buy Yahoo: Microsoft Bid To Buy Yahoo Faces Scrutiny   During my reading I stumbled upon a couple of interesting posts one...

TechNet Subscriptions launched 3 editions of Windows Server 2008 simultaneously with the Windows team’s RTM. These downloads are available to TechNet subscribers worldwide: Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard (x64) X86 is Coming...

Happy Friday everyone! Do you want your favorite IT story put into a comic?  Well now you can, I just found a new online comic strip blog: Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}   This is a daily web comic that adapts tech stories from actual IT...